Clay Travis: Analysis on Teams Which Can Make the College Football Playoffs (Outkick)

Amazon, With Little Fanfare, Emerges as an Advertising Giant(WSJ) Amazon handles nearly half of all online sales in the U.S., giving it a popular platform and a wealth of consumer data. Now it’s on track to become the next juggernaut of online advertising, and its rise threatens to upend Silicon Valley’s ad titans and change the way business is done on Madison Avenue.

Thanks to Alabama, Expanded Playoff is Coming (Saturday Down South) The championship game that fueled the league’s rise from a regional power to a national behemoth, the game that Roy Kramer built and Mike Slive energized and Greg Sankey adores, is on the verge of succumbing – like everything else in college football — to big, bad Bama. Now, the good news: This could lead to true expansion of the Playoff.

Baker Mayfield Takes Another Shot at Hue Jackson (Cleveland.com) Baker Mayfield threw more shade at Hue Jackson on Monday in response to First Take analyst Damien Woody telling him he needs to grow up for his post-game anti-Hue Jackson remarks.

Clay Travis: Michigan – Ohio State is Not a Rivalry, Michigan Doesn’t Deserve It (Outkick)

Viewer Interest in Tiger vs Phil Beats Forecasts (WSJ) Viewer interest in AT&T Inc.’s pay-per-view telecast last Friday of a golf match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson far exceeded the company’s expectations, with sign-ups that may reach as high as one million across multiple pay-TV providers

N.F.L. Is Full of Quarterbacks Who Are Off the Mark, or Even Off the Street (New York Times) The gaudy statistics from a limited pool of elite quarterbacks — such as New Orleans’ Drew Brees, Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, Indianapolis’s Andrew Luck and the Los Angeles Rams’ Jared Goff — tend to overshadow a wider field of weekly dreck, with some surprising highlights and awkward news conference moments mixed in.

Clay Travis: How Is Marvin Lewis Still Employed? (Outkick)

Experience Can Only Take Mack Brown’s Second Stint at UNC So Far (Sports Illustrated) Mack Brown is heading home. Not to the state of Tennessee, where he was born, nor back to Texas, where he had his greatest coaching success leading the Longhorns to the 2005 national championship, but to the University of North Carolina, where his coaching career took off as the architect of three 10-win seasons in Chapel Hill during a 10-year run from 1988 to ’97.